GAGGING THE PRESS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3037, 18 May 1926, Page 2

GAGGING THE PRESS.

WILD TALK BY N.Z. LABOUR EXTREMISTS. Christchurch, May 17. Attacks on the newspaper were the main feature of a meeting on Saturday called by T the Labour Party in connection with the British Strike. The Mayor, the Rev. J. K. Archer, after calling the Daily Mail “a dirty literary rag,” said, “I see absolute lies, misrepresentations and bitterness in the leaders of the Christchurch papers on political questions. 1 can’t help feeling that no linotype man could reproduce them without feeling moral degradation. The ignorance and prejudice of the newspaper editors is so great that the rubbish they write should he revised by the workers who produce it.” Mr. 11. T. Armstrong, ALP., said the strikers at Home had closed the newspaper factories and that would have to be done in this country in time of industrial upheaval if the people were to be told the truth, which they never had been told during times of industrial unrest ill New Zealand. “Until we gel charge of the papers and reading world,” said Mr. F. R. Cooke, “we will have to strike. Then we shall take charge of the Government.”